The National Center for Policy Analysis is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan research institute, funded exclusively by private contributions. The
NCPA originated the concept of the Medical IRA (which has bipartisan support in
Congress) and merit pay for school districts (adopted in South Carolina and
Texas). Many credit NCPA studies of the Medicare surtax as the main factor
leading to the 1989 repeal of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act.

NCPA
forecasts show that repeal of the Social Security earnings test would cause no
loss of federal revenue, that a capital gains tax cut would increase federal
revenue and that the federal government gets virtually all the money back from
the current child care tax credit. These forecasts are an alternative to the
forecasts of the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation
and are frequently used by Republicans and Democrats in Congress. The NCPA also
has produced a first-of-its-kind, pro-free-enterprise health care task force
report, representing the views of 40 representatives of think tanks and research
institutes.

The
NCPA is the source of numerous discoveries that have been reported in the
national news. According to NCPA reports:

Blacks and other minorities are severely disadvantaged under Social Security,
Medicare and other age-based entitlement programs;

Special taxes on the elderly have destroyed the value of tax-deferred savings
(IRAs, employee pensions, etc.) for a large portion of young workers; and

Man-made food additives, pesticides and airborne pollutants are much less of a
health risk than carcinogens that exist naturally in our environment.

What Others Say About the NCPA

"...influencing the
national debate with studies, reports and seminars."TIME

"... steadily
thrusting such ideas as `privatization' of social services into the intellectual
marketplace."CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR